The Best Way To Think About Your Future Health In The Present Moment.
Dr. Matt Maggio
I am SOLVING the Pain Pill Epidemic▪️ Soft Tissue Injury & Inflammation Treatment Expert▪️Blunt Truth Teller💯
“𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐞𝐞, 𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭.” ~ 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐮𝐬
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝟿𝟻 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘖𝘭𝘥 𝘖𝘭𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘴.
I can’t remember where I first heard this idea, I think it may have been on a podcast, but I remember how much it hit me hard when I thought about it.
So what are the 95-year-old Olympics? Essentially being able to function in life when you are 95. Get yourself dressed, carry stuff, move around, or maybe even still drive a car.
This is what ALL of our athletic and functional goals should be, being able to function at the end of our lives so we can ride off into the sunset on our terms.
We are all so guilty of doing a lot of destructive things to our bodies, without ever taking the time to think about our future body and how much it would suck to lose all our function and more drastically our dignity.
I did A LOT of really dumb shit in my teens and through my 20s, a lot of irreversible damage to my body. I guess I was just young and naive back then, thinking I was invincible. I could deadlift well over 700 pounds, bench, and squat a house and was an absolute wrecking ball on the football field.
I also ate like garbage, drank way too much, and partied my ass off. At the time I could care less about my future self, but I wish I had a time machine right now so I could go back and kick my 21-year-old self in the ass and show him how I am now.
I blew out my back, my neck and had more concussions than I can remember. I am making strides to try to regain my health back and has been a long road, with a new perspective taking over me.
I see people all the time in my clinic being horrible to their bodies, doing workouts they don’t need to do, and just flat out abusing their bodies, many of them younger than my age of 35. I also see the older version and it’s an absolute train wreck.
So the take-home here is pretty simple…. Don’t abuse your body, take care of it, then you can be the most kick-ass and awesome old person out there that doesn’t end up in a nursing home.